What do you do
When you realise
Decades later
That the person you hate today
The one you despise to your core
Was the very same person you yourself were
Years and years ago

Does it give you the right?
To judge? To hate?
Or do you shut up
And gnaw yourself inside every second
Do you continue to curse each hardship
You face
Shed tears at your misfortune
Or do you take it all in silence
Believing it to be karmas cruel twist
Accepting it like a penitent man

How do you live with yourself
Now knowing exactly how it felt
The torture you laid on others
Realising only once you yourself experienced it
Do you wish to watch yourself burn
The rightful end for your deeds?
Or do move on
Lock it in a mental box
Push it away into the darkness
An evil forgotten
Attempting foolishly to erase your demonic self

For though others believe you to be angelic
An innocent victim of life
You alone know the truth
The sick disgusting truth of your existence
The price for which you pay each day

For the question was never how do you continue living
The true question is
How do you live with yourself?